Chicago banned unannounced migrant drop-offs. Now this Texas charter bus company is suing over the restrictions | CNN
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The charter bus company hired by the state of Texas to transport migrants to Chicago is trying to flip the script on the border crisis in a federal lawsuit against the city. Wynne Transportation is fighting new restrictions in Chicago against buses dropping off one-way passengers without prior notice.

A charter bus company hired by the state of Texas to transport migrants to Chicago is trying to flip the script on the border crisis in a federal lawsuit against the city alleging that its ordinance banning unannounced migrant drop-offs is unconstitutional and punishes transportation companies working with Texas, court documents show.

Wynne Transportation LLC is fighting new restrictions in Chicago against buses dropping off one-way passengers without prior notice.

The ordinance does not specifically mention immigration, but city leaders have acknowledged it is in response to the influx of more than 30,000 migrants arriving from Texas on government-contracted charter buses, often dropped off on street corners with little or no notice.

  • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    435·
    10 months ago

    Putting people onto a bus by use of force, fraud, or coercion, by itself, doesn’t seem to meet the definition of trafficking.

    Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act.

    Am I wrong? What am I missing?

    • towerful@programming.dev
      25·
      10 months ago

      Human trafficking is defined in the UN Trafficking in Persons Protocol, which supplements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, as “the recruitment, transport, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud or deception for the purpose of exploitation”.

      https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/faqs.html#h1

      I don’t think Texas’ intent here is benevolent, and I don’t think they are doing it without getting what they want.
      Pretty sure it fits the definition.
      However, it’s not a clear cut case. Legally, the exploitation would have to be proven. IE who & how the people behind it are exploiting vulnerable immigrants.

      Don’t get fooled into “it’s only human trafficking if it’s transporting for sex/profit”. It’s a much broader definition

      • ares35@kbin.social
        13·
        10 months ago

        purpose of exploitation

        they’re being politically ‘exploited’. and the republicants and their ‘transportation partners’ are profiting from it…

        does that count?

      • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        71·
        10 months ago

        Don’t get fooled into “it’s only human trafficking if it’s transporting for sex/profit”. It’s a much broader definition

        I’ll have to think about this. Thanks for responding.

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
      182·
      10 months ago

      So, just to be clear, you’re OK with someone telling you to get on the bus? A bus headed to a location they aren’t telling you about?

      What if they took you to the train station and loaded you on a box car with a bunch of other people, is that OK?